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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 15, Pages 6776-6784Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja3005804
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- Region Aquitaine
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) - Programme Blanc (CATAPULT)
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Anion metathesis of imidazol(in)ium chlorides with KHCO3 afforded an easy one step access to air stable imidazol(in)ium hydrogen carbonates, denoted as [NHC(H)][HCO3]. In solution, these compounds were found to be in equilibrium with their corresponding imidazol(in)ium carboxylates, referred to as N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-CO2 adducts. The [NHC(H)][HCO3] salts were next shown to behave as masked NHCs, allowing for the NHC moiety to be readily transferred to both organic and organometallic substrates, without the need for dry and oxygen-free conditions. In addition, such [NHC(H)][HCO3] precursors were successfully investigated as precatalysts in two selected organocatalyzed reactions of molecular chemistry and polymer synthesis, namely, the benzoin condensation reaction and the ring-opening polymerization of D,L-lactide, respectively. The generation of NHCs from [NHC(H)][HCO3] precursors occurred via the formal loss of H2CO3 via a concerted low energy pathway, as substantiated by Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations.
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